Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Prefaces His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal Dr Fawwaz al-Khraysheh, Director General, Department of Antiquities of Jordan Dr Barbara A. Porter, Director, ACOR Regional Archaeological Site Maps of Jordan-From Prehistory to the Islamic Periods Theory 1. Thinking Globally and also Locally: Anthropology, History and Archaeology in the Study of Jordan's Past History 2. The History of North American Archaeological Research in Jordan Methodologies 3. Archaeological Site Surveying in Jordan: The North American Contribution 4. Controlling Space at the Regional Level: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and JADIS in Jordan 5. On-Site GIS Digital Archaeology: GIS-based Excavation Recording in Southern Jordan 6. High Precision Radiocarbon Dating in Jordan 7. The Evolving Landscape of Jordan: The Contributions of Geoarchaeology and Paleoecology 8. Past Environments of the Jordan Plateau from the Paleolakes of the Eastern Desert 9. Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Sites in Jordan: Archaeology Initiatives of the American Center of Oriental Research Regional Archaeology-Deep-Time Studies Across Jordan 10. Ancient Metal Production and Social Change in Southern Jordan: The Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Projectand Hope for a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Faynan 11. How Crossing Jordan made the Difference: The Case of the Madaba Plains Project, 1967-2007 12. Tall Hisban: Palimpsest of Great and Little Traditions of Transjordan and the Ancient Near East 13. Tall al-'Umayri through the Ages 14. Highlights from the Heights of Jalul 15. The 'Iraq AI-Amir and Dhiban Plateau Regional Surveys 16. Investigating 5,000 Years of Urban History: The Tall Madaba Archaeological Project 17. Crossing Jordan: by way of the Karak plateau 18. Four Archaeological Surveys in Southern Jordan Prehistoric Perspectives 19. Searching for Neanderthals and Finding Ourselves: Research at Tor Faraj 20. Neanderthals at the Crossroads: Middle Paleolithic Sites on the Madaba Plateau, Jordan 21. Midnight at the Oasis: The End of the Pleistocenein Wadi al-Hasa 22. Microliths and Mortuary Practices: New Perspectives on the Epipalaeolithic in Northern and Eastern Jordan 23. Crossing the Boundary to Domestication Economies: A Case Study from West-central Jordan 24. The Rediscovery of the Neolithic Period in Jordan 25. Late Prehistory in Wadi Ziqlab, al-Kura, Jordan: From Sedentism to Olive Oil Factories 26. Living on the Edge: Settlement and Abandonment in the Dead Sea Plain 27. Is Big Really Better? Life in the Resort Corridor-Ghwair I, a Small but Elaborate Neolithic Community in Southern Jordan Bronze Age-Earliest Urbanism 28. Life in the Earliest Walled Towns on the Dead Sea Plain: Bab adh-Dhra' and an-Numayra 29. Death and Dying on the Dead Sea Plain: Fifa, Khirbat al-Khanazir, and Bab adh-Dhra' Cemeteries 30. Life at the Foundation of Bronze Age Civilization: Agrarian Villages in the Jordan Valley 31. Khirbet lskander: A City in Collapse at the End of the Early Bronze Age 32. A Landscape Approach to Craft and Agricultural Production: Tracking the Location of Early Bronze Age Manufacturing at al-Lajjun, Jordan 33. The Early Bronze Age City States of the Southern Levant: Neither Cities nor States Early States and The Iron Age 34. Independent and Well-Connected: The Ammonite Territorial Kingdom in Iron Age II 35. Shepherds and Weavers in a 'Global Economy': Moab in Late Iron Age 11-Wadi ath-Thamad Project (Khirbat al-Mudayna) 36. The Power of Place: The Dhiban Community through the Ages 37. A Place In-Between: Khirbat al-Mudayna al-'Aiiya in the Early Iron Age The Edge of Empire-Hellenistic and Roman Period 38. In Search of Hellenistic Petra: Excavations in the City Center 39. Shifting Places, Changing Faces: The Civic Statuary of Roman Jordan 40. Projecting Power on the Periphery: Rome's Arabian Frontier East of the Dead Sea 41. Beyond Frankincense and Myrrh: Reconstructing the Economy of Roman 'Aqaba Nabatean Civilization and its Jordanian Heartland 42. Gods and Vineyards at Beidha 43. Nabataean Landscape and Power: Evidence from the Petra Garden and Pool Complex 44. Surprises at the Great Temple from 1993 to 2006 45. Beyond the Nabataean and Roman City: Surveying the Central and Southern Wadi 'Arabah 46. Luxury in the Desert: A Nabataean Palatial Residence at Wadi Ramm 47. Torn Asunder: Earthquakes at Qasr at-Tilah Theocratic Empire-The Byzantine Period 48. Bioarchaeology of North Jordan: A Decade of Cooperative American and Jordanian Student Research 49. Beyond the Rock: Petra in the Sixth Century ce in the Lightof the Papyri 50. Petra's Churches: The Byzantines and Beyond Islamic Civilization in Jordan 51. From Nabataean King to Abbasid Caliph: The Enduring Attraction of Hawara/al-Humayma,a Multi-cultural Site in Arabia Petraea 52. From Residence to Revolutionary Headquarters: The Early Islamic Qasr and Mosque Complex at al-Humayma and its 8th-century Context 53. Paradox of Power: Between Local and Imperial at Umm Al-Jimal 54. Peasants, Pilgrims, and the Body Politic: The Northern Jordan Project and the Landscapes of the Islamic Periods Geographical Index Subject Index Index of Personal Names